Released in 1984 Atom's first full-length movie Budget: $37,000 Credits at IMDb site

Financed in part by the sale of his short film, Open House, to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Next of Kin premiered at the 1984 Toronto Festival of Festivals. It also received funding from federal and provincial arts organizations. On a tour of Canada, the film received positive feedback, even in the farthest reaches, by the few that saw it. In Germany, the film received the "Gold Ducat" award at a film festival in Mannheim. Later on, due to the burgeoning home video market, Next of Kin was seen by a even broader audience than its young director had first imagined, even south of the border, in the United States.

A bored young Canadian, while receiving experimental "video therapy", discovers tapes of an Armenian family who are missing a son. The young man assumes the identity of the long-lost boy, and is readily adopted by this new "family".